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Setting up Blog with Django 1.6, Mezzanine and Dreamhost

This project started with me not liking the comment system on my Zinnia base blog, and ended with me completely redoing my whole setup. At one point, I decided that I would run the bleeding edge version of Python, Django (from trunk) and Zinnia. Turns out that probably…

Python Mimicry Server

I was given a little challenge with the following requirements:

1.) Develop a client and server using the Python socket library that operates as follows
* Client application is given a server IP address (in dotted decimal notation), a port, and a 
password as command line…

My Mid Atlantic CCDC Experience

Back in 2008, I took part in the Northwest CCDC competition. This was when CCDC was just starting, and the 2008 NWCCDC was actually being run the week after nationals, so the winner would not be advancing. I recall that our team did very well in the technical portions of the competition, but…

Setting up local testing for AWS Lambda with GitHub Actions

The Art of Being a Tourist

Our quest to discover Ireland and Maureen’s Irish roots.

Migrating to AWS

First off, I completely blew my resolution to update this blog monthly. Fell off the horse over the summer. I am going to get back to it, but I do have to stick to my commitment device. I said that I would take my wife to a ballet if I missed a blog, but that was all the way back in Janurary when…

My Resolution

I step out of my Baltimore townhouse and turn left to head toward downtown. Its ten minutes to six in the morning, and I have a two mile jog to the train I take to work. I turn on Strava to track my pace and mileage, and put in my headphones. I have about an hour long commute ahead of me involving a jog to the…

Organization

While I missed last month, there is no reason to give up on my resolution already. (Besides, house buying takes a lot of time!)

My team at work recently adopted Scrum for our workflow. More specifically, our company is pushing the whole contract to get going on Scrum (which I am ecstatic…

Has the Centre St Bike Lane Destroyed Downtown Traffic?

This is based on a presentation I gave during…